"A few weeks ago, I was talking to some people about the nerdy things I work on, and the nerdy things I like. The conversation inevitably turned to Emacs and Lisp, and someone asked why I liked them so much. There are a lot of reasons, but I think the main one is that it’s such a pioneering and influential language, and most people aren’t aware of it. An astonishing number of language features we take for granted owe their existence to Lisp..."
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Ferk
15 years 19 weeks 4 hours 9 min ago
A GNU OS in Lisp would definitely rock!
The sad thing is that GNOME was originally going to be developed in Scheme (GNU Guile).
At least we still can have sawfish: http://sawfish.wikia.com/
apeiron
15 years 18 weeks 23 hours 36 min ago
How is this related to GNU/Linux or Mac?
This article has nothing to do with GNU/Linux or Macs at all. Where's the relation? I see no reference to GNU, Linux, Apple, or Mac in the article.
can.axis
15 years 18 weeks 13 hours 16 min ago
Mac user
It seems to me that the author is a Mac user...